doug walters Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
doug walters is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Kevin Douglas Walters
Born
December 21, 1945, Marshdale, Dungog, New South Wales
Age
77 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 74 | 28 | - | - |
Inn | 125 | 24 | - | - |
Runs | 5357 | 513 | - | - |
Avg | 48.26 | 28.5 | - | - |
SR | 61.84 | 70.08 | - | - |
HS | 250 | 59 | - | - |
NO | 14 | 6 | - | - |
100s | 15 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 33 | 2 | - | - |
4s | 515 | 37 | - | - |
6s | 23 | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 74 | 28 | - | - |
Inn | 72 | 10 | - | - |
Balls | 2691 | 294 | - | - |
Runs | 1425 | 273 | - | - |
Wkt | 49 | 4 | - | - |
BBI | 66 / 5 | 24 / 2 | - | - |
BBM | 89 / 7 | 24 / 2 | - | - |
Eco | 3.18 | 5.57 | - | - |
Avg | 29.08 | 68.25 | - | - |
5W | 1 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- TJ Walters
- Australia
- New South Wales
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Walters' specialty was his ability to handle pace and spin with equal finesse. He had nimble feet which helped him a great deal against the spinners while being adept against genuine pace too due to his strong back foot play. He loved to hook/pull whenever the pacers dropped it short while also possessing a jaw-dropping straight drive in his arsenal. For many who watched Walters bat, he was arguably among the best batsmen to have ever played for Australia after the Don and Neil Harvey. The numbers spoke for themselves and the elegance with which he conjured those runs made him extra special. Apart from his fantastic batting skills, Walters was also a more than useful medium pace bowler who could chip in with a wicket or two when the specialists were having an off day.
Since his First-class debut for Queensland in the 1962-63 season, Walters started being a household name although it was in the 1964-65 season that rose to his peak. A fantastic double century and a seven-wicket haul, both his career bests happened that year. During his prime, Walters signed up to the Army which gave him a two-year hiatus but it didn't affect his career much. He was the first batsman to score a century and a double century in the same Test match. There was a perception that he disliked short-pitched bowling and England exploited this quite a bit though they couldn't prevent Walters from racking up big runs. His social life was a decoration with alcohol and smoking burying him during his free time.
Walters' off field addictions made it seem like he would be a bully on the field but he was anything but that. An absolutely cool character who seemed to be unfazed in the trickiest of match situations, he was as gentle as they come in international cricket and was often seen with a smile on his face. There was a sense of calm around him. His form that hardly dipped throughout his career, took a hit during the World Series after which he was never the same batsman again. After being ignored for the 1981 Ashes series, Walters decided to gracefully exit from the game. The SCG had a Doug Walters Stand in his memory, which got demolished in 2007. He was an active commentator during the 1980s while also being a fine writer, even conjuring a blockbuster book with Mark Waugh in 1999.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Doug Walters holds a somewhat mythical place in Australian cricket. Small, cheeky, popular and multi-skilled, he would drink all night without getting drunk then wipe sleep from his eyes to make a shot-laden century or take a crucial wicket or stunning catch - sometimes, in folklore at least, on the same day. Sometimes cricket is not even the tale's focus. Michael Clarke, who is often compared to Walters, knows him only as a great bloke instead of a great batsman. It is a shame. He was more than a person whose card games were interrupted by falls of wicket.
Walters, the country boy with the bush technique, was a knockabout who disliked training and going to bed early, and favoured drinking, smoking, solitaire and cribbage. Quick on to the back foot against the spinners, he was a fine straight-driver and hooker, and a valuable partnership breaker with his medium pace. Crowds relaxed and related to his instinctive and aggressive Test batting that three times brought up centuries in a session, the most famous arriving when he smacked the last ball of the day from Bob Willis for six at the WACA in 1974-75. He could play pressure innings as well, like the 112 against West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1972-93, when Lance Gibbs had three short-legs by 35 minutes on day one and Walters scored 100 between lunch and tea. "By any standards it was a magnificent innings," Wisden reported. The grit never stuck to his stories, forcing him to open his autobiography with a spoiler. "It rather amuses me when journalists refer to me as happy-go-lucky and unflappable. I feel the pressures and tensions as much as the next bloke."
Growing up on a Dungog dairy farm in country New South Wales, Walters stepped from the paddock into first-class cricket at 17, where he faced the great Wes Hall and reached 50. Like Clarke, he made a century on debut two years later. A second Ashes hundred came in the next match as he followed 155 with 22 and 115 in a sparkling start that was upturned in 1966 by conscription for two years' national service. He was not called up for duty in Vietnam, and smoothly swapped training greens to whites. Re-sealing his place with 699 runs in four matches against West Indies in 1968-69, he became the first player to make a double-hundred and a hundred in a Test.
Walters was a fixture of the team until 1977, his fourth Ashes tour, and he joined World Series Cricket, playing most of his matches upcountry, before a surprise recall against India in 1980-81. Missing out on a century in England remains his career's biggest hole. Using a high back-lift and a light bat, he was susceptible to the swinging ball, and retired after being overlooked for the 1981 Ashes tour. However, his highest score came in the similar conditions of New Zealand. Celebrating his first century overnight, the tour manager was called in the early hours because the hotelier wanted the bar closed. Walters backed up the following evening after reaching 250 from 342 balls and putting on 217 with the No. 8 Gary Gilmour. Another time he borrowed a spectator's bike to ride from third-man at each end after being punished by Ian Chappell for oversleeping. There are so many Walters stories that many of them must be true, and as a man of the people he was rewarded with a stand on the old SCG hill. "There will never be another like him," Dennis Lillee said. "I never saw him throw a bat, never heard him talk badly of anyone. He was so cool." He could bat, too. Peter English April 2005.